Extending the Conversations at the Department of Justice R. David Lankes April 26, 2008 Introduction The following report is based on a series visit to the Department of Justice February 13-15th. During this visit several conversations took place between the researcher, librarians, and library clients within different sections of the Department of Justice and in several DOJ libraries. An [...]

Social Presence: a theoretical construct for evaluation of the participatory catalog Jack M. Maness Assistant Professor Engineering Librarian University Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder 1720 Pleasant St. 184 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 jack.maness@colorado.edu Abstract This paper suggests the literature of “Social Presence” could provide a theoretical paradigm for the evaluation of social software and related technologies in libraries’ online public access catalogs (OPACs). Social [...]